Petter Aaslestad (1953) is since 1994 professor of Scandinavian Literature at the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative literature, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. From 1979 to 1992 he was “Wetenschappelijk medewerker” Scandinavian Institute, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
He was dean at the faculty of Arts 1999-2006. Since 2009: Member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities, The European Science Foundation. Since 2007: Chairman of NOKUT (the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education). At the moment he is chairing the research program: Cultural prerequisites for societal development for the Norwegian Research Council.
He recently published The Patient as Text. The role of the narrator in psychiatric notes, 1890-1990, (Radcliffe, Oxford and New York 2010). Further research interests literary history (canon), modernism, realism, narratology, psychoanalysis, etc.
He was dean at the faculty of Arts 1999-2006. Since 2009: Member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities, The European Science Foundation. Since 2007: Chairman of NOKUT (the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education). At the moment he is chairing the research program: Cultural prerequisites for societal development for the Norwegian Research Council.
He recently published The Patient as Text. The role of the narrator in psychiatric notes, 1890-1990, (Radcliffe, Oxford and New York 2010). Further research interests literary history (canon), modernism, realism, narratology, psychoanalysis, etc.